Target 5: Governments, key sectors and stakeholders at all levels have taken steps to achieve or have implemented plans for sustainable production and consumption, keeping the impacts of use of natural resources, including habitats, on migratory species well within safe ecological limits to promote the favourable conservation status of migratory species and maintain the quality, integrity, resilience, and ecological connectivity of their habitats and migration routes.
► The CMS Resolution 12.20 (Manila, 2017) on Management of Marine Debris includes:
Commercial Marine Vessel Best Practice:
15. Encourages Parties to promote measures such as the Clean Shipping Index and marine environmental awareness courses among shipping operators;
16. Calls upon Parties to require of their shipping operator’s adherence to national obligations also when in areas beyond national jurisdiction;
17. Invites the United Nations Environment Programme to continue and increase its leading role in acting as a moderator between the different stakeholders in the maritime industry, and facilitating coordination to enable best practice measures to be implemented;
18. Welcomes activities of MEAs and fora related to marine issues to agree waste prevention measures on vessels and implement relevant ISO standards; such activities might or should include: shipping operators, ports and other key industries involved with the international transport of goods driving environmental demands, such as by adopting fee systems in ports that incentivize waste delivery through supporting the improvement of port waste reception facilities in general, requiring fishing equipment to be subject to mandatory deposit-and-refund schemes under extended producer responsibility, adopting, waste prevention measures on vessels and implementing relevant ISO standards;
► The Resolution 12.07 The Role of Ecological Networks in the Conservation of Migratory Species, includes:
5. Invites Parties and other Range States and relevant organizations to collaborate to identify, designate and maintain comprehensive and coherent ecological networks of protected sites and other adequately managed sites of international and national importance for migratory animals while taking into account resilience to change, including climate change, and existing ecological networks;
9. Invites Parties, in collaboration with other Multilateral Environment Agreements (MEAs), NGOs and other stakeholders, as appropriate, to enhance the quality, monitoring, management, extent, distribution and connectivity of terrestrial and aquatic protected areas, including marine areas, in accordance with international law including UNCLOS, so as to address as effectively as possible the needs of migratory species throughout their life cycles and migratory ranges, including their need for habitat areas that offer resilience to change, including climate change, taking into account the wider landscape and seascape;
► The CMS COP Resolution 12.15 on Aquatic Wild Meat includes:
3. Urges Parties, and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to recognize the important role they can play in providing capacity-building assistance, especially to Range State Parties, in managing the impact of aquatic wild meat harvests and tackling the associated issues of poverty, habitat degradation, human population growth and overexploitation of natural resources;